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That afternoon in Denver that made me double check every floor layout
Was on a job last summer, new commercial build out on Blake Street. Foreman handed me the MEP drawings and said "just throw the grid down where the prints say." Three weeks later, drywall crew shows up and our soffit layout blocks a fire sprinkler main. Had to rip out 40 feet of track and rehang. Took two extra days and cost us about $3,000 in labor. Now I walk every single trade layout with the GC before we hang a single piece of track.
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lunah121mo ago
Oh man, I feel this one in my bones. I once spent a whole Saturday crawling around a half-finished basement with a tape measure because I misread a duct layout by six inches and ended up building a soffit that made the furnace look like it was hiding from the cops. The worst part was my foreman just standing there with his coffee, not saying a word, just shaking his head like I'd failed a test I didn't know I was taking. Now I'm the weirdo who triple-checks every MEP drawing with a highlighter before I even grab a level. It's like I can't trust my own eyes anymore, which is probably for the best since I'm pretty sure my brain skipped a few pages in the spatial awareness chapter.
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phoenix_lewis1mo ago
Honestly sounds like the contractor shouldve caught that before you even hung anything. Ripping out 40 feet sucks but $3k is a drop in the bucket compared to what a real screwup costs. Yall made it sound like a war story.
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